Relativity at action or gamma-ray bursts

Tsvi Piran

doi:10.1007/bf02113771

Relativity at action or gamma-ray bursts

Tsvi Piran^*

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Racah Institute of Physics

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Gamma ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of few hundred keV γ-rays -have fascinated astronomers since their accidental discovery in the Sixties. GRBS were ignored by most relativists who did not expect them to be associated with any relativistic phenomenon. The recent observations of the BATSE detector on the Compton-GRO satellite have revolutionized our ideas on these bursts and the picture that emerges shows that GRBS are the most relativistic objects discovered so far.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1421-1426
Number of pages	6
Journal	General Relativity and Gravitation
Volume	28
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02113771
State	Published - Dec 1996

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Binary neutron star mergers

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